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Originally Posted by denizen467
So are Proco Moreno's and Solis's. Thanks to Proco Moreno, a historic industrial structure on Elston has now been a pile of rubble since last year because he doesn't like the owner of the fast food chain that wanted to invest there. Thanks to both Danny Solis and Proco Moreno, a very large industrial site across the street, alongside the river, might lose $57 million of investment by a Ford dealership because the aldermen want Ford to find a Latino owner for it. Despite the fact that Ford isn't even awarding new dealerships to anyone as it did pre recession, and this is just a relocation from a previously existing dealer site.
Listening to nimbys is at least part of the job description of an alderman. Quixotic efforts at social engineering, at the expense of city redevelopment and filling the tax coffers, not so much.
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Another example: the bullshit shutdown of the Congress Theater. Moreno basically singlehandedly threw every city agency at the Congress and still wasn't able to shut it down (after all they had passed every inspection for the past 8 years and didn't have a single strike on their liquor license). Finally he was able to get the license revoked (though they are appealing it) on two bullshit charges: allowing patrons to have drugs and failing to call 911 when a fight broke out. What was their evidence of the drugs? All the instances where the theater busted patrons and turned them into the cops. What happened during the fight? There were already 4-5 under cover cops in the audience in anticipation of it being a wild show and a horde of cops descended as soon as the fight broke out. Why would you call the cops when they are already swarming?
As a result, the entire section of Milwaukee between Armitage and California continues to be a dead zone. Moreno struck because the owner of the theater had almost 10 different properties along that stretch purchased or under contract in anticipation of a massive redevelopment of that area. He actually personally called various brokers and property owners demanding they cancel their contract with the owner and made threats against them if they refused. Talk about a complete overstepping of bounds, frankly I'd sue Moreno if I were Carranza for tortious interference in a contract which would be an open and shut lawsuit if he go affidavits from all the people the alderman tried to intimidate. If he won such a case I'd be willing to bet it would catch the Fed's attention as tortious interference by a politician is usually accompanied by other types of criminally punishable corruption.
Basically Moreno did the exact same thing to that stretch of Milwaukee as Flores did to John Burns when he was trying to do the same thing. Why do they keep sinking the development plans along that stretch? Because a large block of their core hispanic constituency lives in that area and would probably be driven out by the accompanying gentrification. So instead of a continuous stretch of development between downtown and Logan Square, you have this enormous dead zone for about 1 mile where Milwaukee stretches through the first ward. Ever notice how all the hot Logan Square businesses are mysteriously in Colons ward and almost none of them south of the border of his ward? Long story short: Proco Joe Moreno is a racist, anti-development, anti-business, alderbeast bent on driving as many "white" businesses out of the city as possible.